The FBI is concerned about the possibility of an organized attack in the United States similar to the one that killed scores at a Russian concert hall last month, the bureau’s director plans to tell a House of Representatives panel on Thursday.“Looking back over my career in law enforcement, I’d be hard pressed to think […]
Tag: fbi
FBI warns of domestic threat related to Israel war
FBI Director Chris Wray warned during a speech in California Saturday of a spike in domestic threats linked to Israel’s war against Hamas militants. “I want to take a moment to offer my heartfelt condolences to the people of Israel, and share the outrage I know we all feel at the sheer brutality and disregard […]
FBI targets Trump voters as domestic terrorists
Less than one year before Americans will begin casting their votes in the 2024 election, the FBI is singling out supporters of Republican frontrunner former President Donald Trump as domestic terrorists, a report from Newsweek shows. Testimony from more than a “dozen current or former government officials who specialize in terrorism” to Newsweek confirmed that […]
Utah man killed by FBI after making threats
A man was shot and killed during an FBI raid early Wednesday morning in Utah, the FBI confirmed to CBS News. Special agents attempted to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence in Provo at 6:15 a.m. local time when the subject was shot and killed, officials said. The man allegedly posted threats online […]
FBI declines GOP subpoena on Biden ‘Crime scheme’
The FBI declined to immediately provide congressional Republicans with a document the lawmakers say outlines an “alleged criminal scheme” involving President Biden and a foreign national, blowing through a Wednesday deadline to produce the unverified information that was subpoenaed by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.). Christopher Dunham, the FBI acting assistant […]
Fingerprints of unvaccinated NYC teachers sent to FBI
The fingerprints of unvaccinated New York City teachers were reportedly sent to the FBI with “problem code” flags, prompting outrage from former educators who lost their jobs over the mandate. Earlier this month, John Bursch, who is representing teachers who are suing the city over the mandate, said teachers who refused the shot now have […]
FBI now searching Biden Delaware beach home
FBI agents were sent to President Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on Wednesday to conduct a search for additional classified documents, the president’s attorney Bob Bauer said. “Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware. Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in […]
FBI was in constant contact with Twitter
The new Twitter Files, part six drop from journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday sheds new light on an otherwise unfolding landscape of how the FBI was in “constant” contact with the tech giant to censor, in a “pervasive” manner, almost unilaterally users on the right, some on the left, but nonetheless both users big and […]
Twitter Executive Met with FBI Weekly
Twitter’s former head of safety Yoel Roth was seemingly meeting with the FBI on a weekly basis around the 2020 election, according to the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” from journalist Matt Taibbi.Taibbi shared a screenshot of Slack messages from after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, in which Roth jokingly says […]
‘MAGA Terrorism’ is FBI’s enemy #1
The FBI is conducting three times as many domestic terrorism investigations than it was five years ago, with 70 percent of its open cases focused on “civil unrest” and anti-government activity, according to FBI documents and government specialists. The Bureau has also quietly changed the general classification of white supremacy, antisemitism, abortion-, and anti-LGBTQI+-related extremism […]
1,000-page report released by House Republicans damning the FBI, DOJ
House Republicans on Friday released a new report detailing whistleblower allegations of FBI misconduct and politicization at the highest levels of the Department of Justice. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken,” the GOP report states. “The problem lies not with the majority […]
Just released FBI crime data incomplete
The FBI released its national crime data for 2021 this week, but it lacks data from nearly 40% of police departments nationwide, including massive forces in cities such as New York and Los Angelesd. “I don’t think you could get national numbers, at least not useful national numbers, from this data,” Jacob Kaplan, criminologist at […]